How do I change to a cloned hard drive?

Q:How do I change to a cloned hard drive?

I'm cloning my hard drive onto another one, but I'm not exactly sure what the process is for setting the cloned one as my No1 drive. My old one is on its last legs and I'd rather use it for my less important things. What will happen when I disconnect my old one from my computer and only have the new one on it?

Will everything be literally the exact same on the new one? Same partition names and everything? And if so, can I then reconnect my old one and use its 2 partitions just like normal in addition to the 2 new cloned ones in My Computer? And won't those partition names conflict?

Any help on what I should do for this transition would be greatly appreciated, thanks

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How do I change to a cloned hard drive?

I recommend downloading and running Reimage. It's a computer repair tool that has been proven to identify and fix many Windows problems with a high level of success.

I messed up by making a cloned SATA drive instead of just doing an image back up. Now, because it's recognized as a real system drive, I can't get to it to make it a backup drive with an image vice a clone.

A:How do I change a cloned SATA drive to use as a backup drive

Sorry to hear you are having issues Beaner...

Not sure how politically correct that name is either... LOL!

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I messed up by making a cloned SATA drive instead of just doing an image back up.

What application did you use to make this "Clone"?

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Now, because it's recognized as a real system drive, I can't get to it to make it a backup drive with an image vice a clone.

Can you boot into your OS? If yes, can you see both the old HDD and the Cloned HDD? If you can positivly ID the cloned drive just format it and start again!

Having successfully cloned my C drive to a removable drive (Thanks for your help on that), I would now like to access some of those programs on a different computer via the USB port. Since the other computer is somewhat smaller than mine, I'm reluctant to try out of fear that I'll crash it or worse.

Can this be done?

A:Cloned hard drive

Hi,

Apart from some very simple programs such as Solitaire and freecell. This will not work.

The host computer would need the programs installed to have all the correct registry settings and files to run the program(s)

Hello,
I purchased Apricorn DriveWire to help me clone my current 120GB hard drive to a 320GB hard drive.

I think I successfully cloned my HD to the new one.
Only problem is when it was done, I did not unplug my 320GB hard drive when I rebooted my laptop. I guess the OS settings got modified.

So I wanted to see if everything worked, so I reopened the software I used (Apricorn EZ Gig II) and clicked on Clone Disk. I get an error saying
"you have only one drive. this program is designed to work with two or more drives".

About a month ago I decided to get a much bigger hard drive GB but theres no way I have time to reinstall everything so I decided to clone my existing hard drive I tried acronis and the clone went superfast and put everything onto a single partition the full size of the new disk - when I tried to boot up Cloned Drive Hard with the disk it didnt boot It got to the pale blue screen that usually says welcome but instead it had a small windows XP logo and that was it it didnt go any further I contacted support and they were no help so last Cloned Hard Drive night I tried another free software hdclone - it took about hours but I actually managed to boot up from the new disk - but the new drive had a single partition the exact same size as the old one and the rest was unused space - no problem I though I ll just extend it with diskpart - which I did and now windows wont boot from that disk again - with the same issue as it did with the acronis migration So I resized the partition back down to the original size and it still wont boot up from that disk nbsp

I got an imminent hard drive faiure warning during boot up. I immediately purchased a 1TB hard drive and cloned it with SpotMau. The clone appears to be an exact copy of the original, and now the original hard drive has failed. The cloned copy will not boot after installing it in the computer. The original hard drive was XP and I upgraded it with Vista Home Premium upgrade package. When I tried to use the disk to repair the cloned hard drive, it required a previous version of windows to do the repair function. Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.

A:Cloned Hard Drive will not boot.

ofladrt-have you got another machine you could hook the drive into as a slave?If you can do that to save documents to disk,save them there.It kinda sounds it's the long road but it may mean full reset(format) with xp and then upgrade to vista.

OK, this has me stumped. I use Acronis True Image 2012 for cloning my hard drive. I have two internal drives, drive C: and D: as my back up/Cloned. Now what takes place after I clone my drive is that both drives will be identical in size as in, 63Gigs each; but after using the computer for 10 minutes or so, the D: drive will now show 53Gigs. Why? Where is 10Gigs going?

Have a system that had a hard disk drive that was going bad I took the opportunity to clone the drive to a new drive and all went well in the process The hard disk drive is larger than the old so I went to expand the partition to use all of the drive space I have attempted this with Acronis Easeus and Partition Magic None of the utilities will expand the partition stating that there are bad Bad Hard Blocks Cloned Drive blocks on the drive I then formatted the new Cloned Hard Drive Bad Blocks drive again and ran some tools Cloned Hard Drive Bad Blocks against it to ensure everything was OK I then proceeded to mirror the data again with the same results I have tried to run chkdsk f to clear up any issues without success Is it possible the my clone quot cloned quot the bad blocks in the MBR or physically I would appreciate any ideas on how I can quot remove quot the bad blocks so that I can expand the partition John nbsp

A:Cloned Hard Drive Bad Blocks

OK, it is a mistake to partition or format the destination drive when using acronis. This will cause drive letter problems. Here is what I would do;

1 Download and run the drive maker's utility for checking the drive. If it checks OK, then there is usually an option to zero fill the drive or sometimes this is called a LLF [low level format]

I have Windows 12 Pro installed. I cloned my 160 gig Samsung HD to 500 GIG WD drive.There were three cloned partitions. When I look at the partitions under computer I find C,D,E,F,G,I. Since I don't need double the information can I format the partitions from the Samsung drive without problems?

I am running Windows 8.1 and it appears that my hard drive needs to be replaced. When the machine is turned on, frequently there is a slight screech and I feel it?s best to replace the hard drive.

How do I make an exact bootable copy of the hard drive on a new hard drive and simply replace the drive with the new drive without having to reinstall Windows 8.1 or other programs and without affecting any of the files currently on the machine? If cloning software is required, are there any free programs I can download?

A:Replacing hard drive with a cloned copy

I know of no free image backup software to restore to dissimilar hardware.

Two good programs are Acronis True Image 2014 Premium or Macrium Reflect Pro. I have used them in the past.

Hallo everyone I bought a Western Digital gig HD plugged it in caddy to a USB port and used WesDig s own Data Lifeguard prog to clone the still-installed gig drive to the new HD Took out the installed the tried to boot Immediately after the PC maker s screen quot error loading OS quot appeared Ctrl Alt Del took me into setup but nothing I dare do had any effect I think the problem might result from my failure to remove my bios password before cloning didn t understand the required method so left it installed I either need to blank the new HD totally including the hidden recovery partition and redo the clone or to correct the fault in the existing clone to enable the drive boot won't hard cloned Vista New drive to boot Note - the cloned drive shows all files and OS correctly when viewed as an external USB device so it seems as if the only fault is in the boot Can anyone please send me some -proof amp jargon-free instructions about fixing my problem I read about quot fixmbr quot amp quot fixboot quot but can t find them Are they Dos commands in WinXP perhaps You see I m a relative novice at this robjn nbsp

A:New cloned hard drive won't boot Vista

The new HDD dont have any Sata drivers installed for the new HDD. Reinstall the old HDD and boot from it with the new HDD still hooked up by Sata, reclone the old HDD to the new one.

not sure if I should post this here or on the OS board but here goes. I cloned my win xp hard drive so I could run xp on my 2nd pc. I cant get it to boot up.Im assuming it is because of win xp. I'm running a DFI mobo CM33-TL

A:Cloned hard drive for new mobo, won't boot

If the hardware is different than the computer the drive was cloned from then it won't work. It needs to be formatted and installed with the hardware that the drive is currently in.

This thread is a follow-up to this thread http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/781376-solved-questions-about-cloning-bad.html

OK, I have decided to reinstall XP to make all of drive C available, since only 60 gig is available now because the original drive was 60 gig. In addition, the appearance of bad sectors on the new drive is an issue.

My question now is whether I need to reformat the good drive which will be the boot drive. If I re-install XP, will the new re-install of XP reformat the drive or do I need to do a reformat as a separate procedure?

I cloned my failing hard drive (a 160gb) to a new one (500gb). The installation seemed to go smoothly enough (it was my first time though) as it just required me to stay grounded and remove about 4-5 screws. When I loaded the PC up it wouldnt start the first time so I had to a Windows repair, which didn't seem to do anything except now it worked (it said it failed or something). I then had an issue with Windows 7 claiming to not be genuine although for one reason or another that stopped. Now my issue is that I am unable to access the additional memory of my new hard drive, I am able to access the cloned portion but not the rest (about 316gb). Any help would be appreciated, my PC is a Dell Latitude E6400 if that helps.

A:Inaccessible Memory on Cloned Hard Drive

Hello there,

It is absolutely normal not to see the rest of the free space in the moment. When you clone a drive you create the exact same image of old drive on the new one. This includes the size of the original HDD. However if you go to Disk Management ( type diskmgmt.msc in the search in the start menu and hit enter) you will see that you have one partition of 160GB and the rest of the space will be listed as unallocated. To use it you have two options ? you can create a second partition or you can extend the original one to take all the available space.

To create a new second partition just right-click on the unallocated space and select ?New Simple Volume?. This will starts a wizard to guide you through the rest of the process. First it will ask about the size of the partition. To use all the remaining space just type in the same value you have for Maximum disk space. Click Next.

Then you will get to choose and available drive letter to assign to this partition. Choose one and click Next.

Then you get to the Format partition window. You should choose ?Format volume with the following settings: ?. For the file system is best to leave NTFS. Allocation unit size as default. You can also put a label for the volume here. Then tick the box for ?Perform a Quick Format. ? Click Next. Then Click Finish. And you're done.

If at any point Windows pops up with the following message ?The operation selected will convert the disk to dynamic... are you sure you want to continue? ? click NO as this will most probably make your Windows unbootable and you will have to reinstall it.

If you want to extend the existing partition right-click on 160GB partition and select ?Extend Volume?. It will start the wizard and will only ask about how much space to add. Just select the maximum available space here and click Next, then click Finish. Once done your existing partition will be bigger and you'll be able to use all the space on your new HDD.

I am trying to completely clean out an external hard drive which was last used to make a clone of my computers drive In trying to do this I seem to have run into two problems one is that when I made the clone the drive hard a Format cloned drive external was split into Format a cloned external hard drive separate partitions which now show up separately on my computer I would like to turn the whole thing back Format a cloned external hard drive into one drive Second my computer seems to be treating the drive strangely whenever I try to safely remove it I am told the generic volume can t be stopped even if every program has been closed also when I first tried to wipe it using the quot wipe data quot tool in the free version of EaseUS Todo backup which was the same program I used to make the clone I was given an error message I don t know if this is even possible but the only thing I can think of is that because the drive contains an exact clone of a fully functional computer hard drive it is being treated differently by the operating system Any help would be great thanks Other info lenovo sl laptop running windows vista and the drive in question is a Lacie rugged all terrain hard drive nbsp

A:Format a cloned external hard drive

Never use any "wipe" tools unless you plan to destroy the drive. Some have been unusable afterward. There is never a need to wipe a drive you plan to keep.

There is no reason to "safely remove" a drive whose contents you do not care about. Data loss is a non-issue. Just unplug it.

A cloned drive will not work properly unless connected to the machine identically to the way the original was. It has the same drive letter and is set up to replace the original. It sees a different hardware environment than the original.

If it is truly a clone, then it will have the same partitions and structure as the original. It will also be a system drive due to the presence of a page file. Use a bootable CD to remove the partitions and create new ones.Parted Magic disk partitioning, PC repair, and file recovery tool (Bootable CD or USB image)If you prefer a bootable USB key, download and run Linux Live USB Creator. Choose the Parted Magic distro, and it will download it and automatically create a bootable USB key.

This CD (or key) contains many useful tools. You can partition, recover files, recover lost partitions, make disk images (by several different methods), transfer files between media, scan for viruses (It can serve as an Alternative Trusted Platform for search and elimination of rootkits and bootkits), examine and benchmark hardware, access the internet, and much more.

I think I successfully cloned my HD to the new one.Only problem is when it was done, I did not unplug my 320GB hard drive when I rebooted my laptop. I guess the OS settings got modified.

So I wanted to see if everything worked, so I reopened the software I used (Apricorn EZ Gig II) and clicked on Clone Disk. I get an error saying"you have only one drive. this program is designed to work with two or more drives".

Hey all Bought a new Gig Seagate Hard-Drive to replace my Maxtor Gig Hard-Drive Plugged it in the second Solved: :( Cloned boot Won't Hard-Drive; HDD Solved: Cloned Hard-Drive; Won't boot :( slot and powered it up as the slave to the master ie the maxtor is master seagate is slave and used Windows Disk Management to activate it format it to NTFS same as Maxtor and then used this to clone it That worked fine however when I remove the Maxtor and attempt to boot up from the Seagate BIOS detects it I can set it as master but any time it attempts to boot from it or I ask it to boot from it it demands that I quot insert system disk and press enter quot as if it s booting from the CD-drive I thought maybe I need to somehow changed Seagate which is F to C But I have no idea how to do this or what I m missing here I mean surely the straight clone should just think it is the C Cheers Chris nbsp

I have bought laptop with ore installed windows 7 premium 64 bit. It came with a 320 gig hard drive. I have upgraded to a 1 tb and using seagate disk wizard I cloned the 320 hd to the 1 tb. But ever since then the 1 tb hard drive boots fine to windows but the explorer keeps crashing and restarting several times. I have tried running an sfc scan and presently running a chkdsk scan. If there is any help on what I can do to sort this out would be much appreciated

A:Windows explorer crashing on cloned hard drive

This is after last sfc scan. The scan completes but cant fix 2 files as shown in text. Does anybody no how to fix this please .....

Hi recently upgraded the hard drive in my laptop from a gig drive to a gig drive using Seagate s discwizard tool The cloning went smoothly The new hard drive worked flawlessly after install I ran a defrag to clean it up and when I went to turn it on the next morning magically windows would no longer boot So I cloned it again and this time it worked wonderfully for a couple of weeks I thought maybe something just screwed up in the original cloning So yesterday my computer loads updates from Windows update I installed them all thinking nothing of it went to turn on my computer tonight surprise surprise windows is missing some files and the computer won t boot So having drive problems windows hard New update cloned I swapped the drive out and put the old one back in and I m wondering if anyone knows what this might be before I go through the whole cloning process again Any help New cloned hard drive having windows update problems is greatly appreciated I m really tired of swapping out drives Thanks nbsp

A:New cloned hard drive having windows update problems

I assume you have checked and the bios of your machine does support drives of that size.

I cloned my Gig hard drive onto a Gig one with HDClone and everything went fine I tested each out in another machine and they both seemed to work fine However I currently have the Gig hooked up by itself drive Solved: as as old up my size shows same hard one! Cloned and it s still reading it as only actually Gigs What happened Some background The PC I normally use is a Compaq Presario with a Gig HD I have a newer Compaq a Presario S NX with a Gig HD that has a busted power supply I took the and plugged it in to my PC as a Slave and wiped it clean successfully I didn t however do anything to the pins I just connected the proper cables Then I used HD Clone to clone my Gig to that one which also was successful I took the out so I could test the and it worked fine Then I put the into the other machine along with the power supply and it recognized a bunch of new hardware from the new machine and also worked fine Not wanting Solved: Cloned hard drive shows up as same size as my old one! to use the smaller drive I switched it out with the Now it still works but it s only reading it as a Why did this happen and how do I fix it nbsp

Hi I just bought a new tb HDD to replace my ancient gb one Since I'm overall very happy w my Windows installation I decided to clone instead of install fresh and used Macrium Reflect to clone one (cloned) w/ boots drive; old Switched only to in plugged new hard the drive Upon switching from the old to the new one I was disappointed to encounter a bluescreen boot error after the Windows logo and spinning symbol had been displaying for a few seconds Error xc e system service exception Trying to boot into any variety of safe mode gives the same result I didn't think this was an MBR issue based on how far into the boot process it happened but I tried repairing rebuilding the MBR anyway and it didn't change the problem The weird thing is that when I plugged in my old drive to boot to it and troubleshoot my system actually booted to the new clone drive and it works perfectly - exactly like the old one did - but it only works like this with the old drive plugged in See this image http imgur com YVhKAqX Obviously the new drive is the larger C which is correctly flagged Switched (cloned) to new hard drive; only boots w/ old one plugged in as system active primary etc D is the old drive Before I cloned and switched the old drive was C I suspect the issue might have to do with the un-lettered mb recovery partition I didn't clone over from the old hard drive but I'm not sure Everything looks to me like the C drive should boot on its own but it just doesn't I'd appreciate any insight into this Thank you

A:Switched (cloned) to new hard drive; only boots w/ old one plugged in

It is not the recovery partition that is the main issue. Your boot sectors are on the wrong drive.

This should sort it out,

1) Disconnect old HDD.

2) Boot from Macrium Rescue Drive, select restore tab, and click "fix windows boot problems", then it should list your C drive. If not, stop and come back for more advice.

3) Then click next, finish and boot sectors will be rebuilt.

4) Set pc to boot from new HDD in bios.

5) boot pc and check it is working ok.

6) Now the slightly tricky part is the Recovery Partition is on the wrong drive. Windows does not actually need that unless you decided to reset your PC. However, as you use Macrium, you can simply create an image backup of your C drive, or reinstall from scratch using the standard MS iso anyway. On my tablets, I always delete that partition and use image backups to an external drive instead.

You can backup and restore the partition to the disk with C drive using Macrium, by shrinking the C drive but you have to do something else to 'connect' it. TBH not really worth the effort.

7) reconnect old HDD, backup data temporarily to new HDD, and format old HDD, then copy data back.

Finally, I strongly advise you shrink the C drive significantly e.g. to 300GB or so, and create a large data partition. That way when you need to make an image backup of the C drive, it will be a lot smaller, and can be recovered independently of the data.

Hi all I have a simple question and first off a disclosure I haven't done any system imaging before If my purpose is to clone an internal HDD Fujitsu GB with about GB drive replace external HDD hard to cloned internal an A used on an old Compaq laptop to an external hard drive WD Scorpio Black GB so that I can actually SWAP them A cloned external hard drive to replace an internal HDD when the need arises ie install the WD in the laptop should I expect a an exact copy of the internal drive including OS A cloned external hard drive to replace an internal HDD programs data AND boot files b the above to be done with either Acronis as provided by WD or Macrium Reflect Also since I have extra space on the WD drive should I use it as a plain back up of data as well on a separate partition or restoring an image works best on one simple partition Now here's the kicker I read on this and other forums about perfect Image Creations but definitely not perfect Image Recoveries Is there a way to test it Testing it as in disabling the internal hard drive thru BIOS and starting Windows from the external drive is that possible I think not Thank you

Hi.Wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a way to verify that my Win7 PC has digital entitlement for Win10. I have cloned my hard drive onto another hard drive, as the original is making noises, and it might be time to end its life.I upgraded to Win10 on the original hard drive, then rolled it back to Win7. That meant that i could upgrade to Win10 again at a later time. Then I cloned the hard drive.I can see that Win7 is activated on the new HDD, but i want to know if it has the digital entitlement to upgrade to Win10, or whether that would have been lost in the cloning process (or whether the change in hardware will prevent an upgrade - which I doubt).Thanks.

have a win Asus laptop all software is legit and legal the original primary Gig Seagate HD was going bad Bought a newer lager Toshiba Tb to replace it Used Acronis Disk Director Home to clone primary drive to the new drive Home installed. Prem. cloned, Hard Win7 HD switched them powered up and everything seemed to be ok Then when I open Office Outlook the images for the emails don't show when Hard drive cloned, installed. Win7 Home Prem. I save an image from online the name use to show up automatically in the quot save as quot as it was online but now I have to type is in manually checked and now windows update wont run but Microsoft security essentials does cannot check for updates as it is not running it ask me to reboot but same click on fix windows update in the control panel or try run maintenance task and get the error message quot a problem is preventing troubleshooter from running quot same on most of these type task yahoo email and websites don't store the login any more and have to enter manually each time also when I try to download attachments the save save as etc appears but when I click it nothing happens I know if I had moved everything to a different pc the license would have issues but this is not what happed here Everything is legit as bought except I had to replace the HD need help and don't understand since everything was good to go before and nothing is pirated on my laptop also passwords for websites don't get remembered or ask to remember any longer Thanks

A:Hard drive cloned, installed. Win7 Home Prem.

southerncalm,Welcome to SF. I had a look around and this link could be a good read. I've had much better image successes with another clone program but I'm sure the Acronis is more then capable as well. The program I use is linked below:

I swapped my 320 GB Hard drive for a 1 TB hard drive. Used Acronis True Image WD to clone the drive. Seems to be working OK except when I tried to update windows. It comes up with " Cant update because service is not turned on." So I went to Services to check it and it is showing that it is running. Kinda lost as to what I might have wrong here. Any help I sure would be great full.

Greetings to you at Bleeping Computer On Saturday June th I installed a new and larger Western Digital hard drive I downloaded Acronis True Image WD Edition software from Western Digital's website and used it to clone my old hard drive onto my new hard drive I removed the old hard drive My computer is about years old it is running Windows Vista Home Premium Now when I try to open Windows Mail the following happens I get a window titled Windows Mail Storage Recovery that says Recovering the Windows Mail Database That window disappears and I now get a window titled WinMail exe that says Windows mail could not be started The application was unable to open the Windows Mail message store Windows Mail was unable to locate its message database If you've Mail Cloned Hard wont & Installed open Drive - New Windows move the database files to a new location click OK to Reset the database path to that location Otherwise click Cancel to proceed any existing messages found will be available under Orphaned Accounts x I click on the OK button and I get a Window titled Browse for Folder which already has the Windows Mail folder highlited I click on the OK button and I get a Window titled WinMail exe that says Windows Mail could not be started The application was unable to open the Windows Mail Message Store Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full x I click on the OK Installed & Cloned New Hard Drive - Windows Mail wont open button and I get a Window titled Windows Mail that says Windows Mail could not be started because MSOE DLL could not Installed & Cloned New Hard Drive - Windows Mail wont open be initialiized When I click on the OK button the window closes I currently have GB of RAM and GB of free space on my Hard Drive so I don't think that I am running out of memory or that my disk is full This is the first time I have ever Cloned a drive are there typically problems after cloning a drive Another thing I noticed was when I was trying to search it wasn't finding some files I know are there Should I Rebuild my index Please help

A:Installed & Cloned New Hard Drive - Windows Mail wont open

Well...a cloned drive is an exact copy...so programs that worked before should work on the cloned drive, assuming no drive problems. I'd have to assume that problems now...were problems before the clone was made.

My primary HDD was failing so I backed it up and replaced it with a larger 1TB drive. After reinstalling everything the new drive is displaying the same size as my old drive and the extra space available is unallocated. I can allocate it as
a separate drive but I find that annoying and would prefer to just have my primary C: drive show up with all of the available space. I formatted the extra space and made it available separately as drive G hoping that I could EXPAND drive C but that option
is not highlighted as selectable on drive C for some reason. Should I just live with this extra space or is there a way to easily combine C and the new G space?

So the machine I am working with is a consumer line Dell Inspiron E with Windows XP Media Center and the latest A bios It came with a GB sata hard drive that was almost full and wanted to upgrade to a larger drive I grabbed a brand new Seagate GB hard drive I booted up Acronis and attempted to clone to from a GB drive to a GB Everything looked perfect It saw all four partitions from the source drive and once done showed that for the destination as well I shut off the computer install the new hard and proceed to boot The computer attempted it. Virus cloned of Disk drives. Permanently HPA Locks Modifies damaging and hard Hard to boot but then received a stop x b error unmountable boot volume for those unfamilar Common issue when cloning disk so Virus Permanently Modifies HPA of Hard Disk cloned and Locks it. damaging hard drives. I proceeded to boot to an XP disk so I could repair the Windows install Once it booted up I noticed the drive was shown as a GB hard drive the brand new GB drive I restarted the machine checked the bios and it saw the drive as a GB hard drive I pulled the drive and hooked it to four other machine that all stated the disk was now a GB hard drive We checked disk management booted to several hard drive testing tools and even poped it into a linux environment Virus Permanently Modifies HPA of Hard Disk cloned and Locks it. damaging hard drives. The drive had been Permanently changed to a GB disk To my disbelief I started investigating I tried another GB new hard drive this time with ghost booted from win Same process everything seemed perfect Reboot dosnt start I check the BIOS This drive as well has been Permanently changed to a GB Keep in mind at this point the original hard still boots perfect Goes to Windows just low on disk space Next attempt I try to clone the drive in a different environment to rule out the possibility the machine was causing the issue I pulled the hard drive and grabbed yet another hard drive i have two I need to RMA now I cloned the disk using a Windows based Ghost and it succeeded as well I looked through the partitions and data and everything looked fine I loaded the disk into the machine and got an quot XLDR ATA Error quot I decided to go straight to bios and the replacement drive GB this time is alos a GB hard drive I have now bricked three perfectly working hard drives I have formatted diskparted and everything else inbetween I had to find out what the problem and decided to dig a little deeper I took one of the GB cloned drives I had and I grabbed a copy of MHDD and proceeded to check the drive out After a little digging I found out that HPA had been modified to show this smaller size I had found where it recognized the full limit of the drive The command NHPA resets the drive back to it native max address limit IT attempted to run but failed I tried to unlock the drive and that didnt work either I tried a tool to manually set the sector count back to it s original size and that failed as well So that s most of the story Here are some details Iv e discovered The problem persist once the drive is inserted into the machine and turned on Once cloned the cloned drive shows a RAW filesystem I have used different branded drives and sized drives Western Digital GB Seagate GB Samsung GB It changes the drives serial number to quot j quot where is often random letters or numbers Orginal Drive Sector Count - Cloned Drive Sector Count - Please ask any questions that you need I am trying a few more things to see if I can get this working I have also found this fourm that is about pages long unresolved that may be helpful In the fourm they talk about a Dell Media Direct issue that im more than familiar with I don t think this is what is causing the issue as I have the latest BIOS A and I did the clone in another unit and the same thing still happened http www computerhope com forum index php topic htmlMy personal thought is that a boot sector virus is doing this Help me with your thoughts

I have a USB external hard drive that I keep all my documents etc on had it change Hard Drive back - Letter - to External Drive unable changed for years I upgraded from Vista Home to amp Home Premium then had to upgrade recently to Professional to run my Sage Through all these upgrades my ext drive ran fine Occasionally the drvie letter would change if I had something else plugged into the USB this was External Hard Drive - Drive Letter changed - unable to change back always easily corected in disk management by changing the drive path The connection on the case packed up so I had to get the External Hard Drive - Drive Letter changed - unable to change back drive put into a new case now when I plug it in the drive is assigned G instead of F I tried to change the drive letter allocation in Disk Management but it won't let me as the program still thinks I have a second ext hard drive which is labelled F I suspect this has happened because when the usb connection broke the drive was disconnected suddenly instead of a proper eject How do I get Disk Management to remove the inactive drive - i can't find any obvious way - eject delete etc are all missing when I click on tools or tasks If there is no easy way then how do I stop program updates for Adobe etc failing because they can not find the F drive I don't know why they look at that drive anyway Help

A:External Hard Drive - Drive Letter changed - unable to change back

Hi PAMDILL,

Welcome aboard.

Try this:

Download drivecleanup.zip V 0.8.1 from

Drive Tools for Windows

Unzip to a folder. In it you will have two folders Win32 and x64, each containing DriveCleanup.exe for Windows 32bit and 64 bit respectively.

Now unplug all the USB devices from your PC (except of course the Keyboard and mouse), right click on the appropriate DriveCleanup.exe for your system and run it as an administrator.

This will remove all non-present drives from the registry.

Reboot and then plug-in your external drive.

The drive will be installed and hopefully you should be able to assign any free drive letter to it.

F is assigned to a drive that does not exist and never has. I am confused. I only have one CD drive and it says now that I have 2 even though the one addressed as F doesn't have any information. If I click on F it says "Insert Disk"

Hello Recently bought a new Laptop D External files Change Partitioned Hard to back up from Drive Drive? and went through all the setting up process one of which was Change back up files from D Partitioned Drive to External Hard Drive? Windows back up At the time I just went for the partitioned drive option but after a week I've decided to buy an external Hard drive for my back ups instead My questions are Can I easily change the destination of the back up files Do I just delete everything on Drive D once I'm backing up to an external Hard Drive or will Windows give me this option when I change to external Hard Drive The Back up is done on a schedule so how do I get on when the date passes Will it ask me to plug my external Hard Drive in the next time I boot up Finally I'd like to back up our Desktop too running on Vista Can I just partition the external Hard Drive and keep our laptop and Desktop backed up on the same hard drive Cheers Matthew

A:Change back up files from D Partitioned Drive to External Hard Drive?

Hi Matthew -

You don't need to partition the HD to keep your different backups on it.

The WindowsImageBackup file needs to be named only that and in the root of the external to reimage from the booted DVD or Repair CD, however you can click on it to see which PC it is for.

I don't like the way Win7 file backup works so I drag the active User folder from each computer here to external once per month, then update the backup image every few months. You may decide to go Manual after trying the automated backup, since you'll need to move the external to catch the backup anyway.

I'm booting off my SSD which is drive C:\ and I have games and programs on an extra hard drive which was origanally drive H:\ but after a restart it switched to I:\ and when I go into Disk Management to change it Drive H:\ isn't there.

A:Hard drive isnt allowed to change the correct drive letter

Hi KiityCancer,

What you say makes perfect sense. So, if a restart changed the drive letter to I, then H won't be there. Why not just leave it at I or is there more to this story...

I have a new Envy 17 with a SSD 258 drive and a 1 TB std hard drive. I am trying to get the computer to boot on the 1TB drive. When I go into setup I am unable to change boot drives. On startup I have to press esc key and select F9 and then select the 1TB drive to get it to boot to the 1TB drive. I have my windows 10 pro installed on my 1TB drive. The laptop came with the Windows 10 installed on the SSD drive. I want the laptop to automatically boot to the 1TB drive and can not figure out how to change the configuration. Help. Thanks

I have put a new hard drive on my Dell Dimension 8300, initially it was for extra storage, my C drive is 40GB and is now full, i copied my C drive using Norton Ghost onto my E drive 80GB. I need to know how can i tell my system to boot from my E drive.

A:Hard Drive Change

Set the 80GB as the C drive and the old 40GB as the E drive. Are these drives IDE or SATA drives? IDE drives have Master/Slave/ CS (Cable Select) physical jumpers and SATA drives do not have these jumpers

I have just attempted to swap a hard drive from my dell to a compaq that someone gave me. When I power on the computer that the hard drive is in I get a blank screen. Did I do something wrong? Please help.

A:Hard drive change

Hi wcheard,

Welcome to Techspot!
Sometimes when you swap a hard drive over to another PC it doesnt like the hardware change.

Try the following:Remove the HDD from the Compaq and re-boot the pc. Even though the HDD is missing you should still get a picture on the screen.If you DONT get a picture with the HDD removed the the Compaq either has a) a faulty mobo OR b) there may a problem with the graphics card. This all dpeends if you have a graphics card installed or if you are using onboard VGA.

One things I have never been able to get right is changing a hard drive with Windows on without reloading Windows.

Let's say for example I have a laptop with one drive on it (and let say only one partition) and I would like to put in a bigger hard drive. How do I do that without reloading windows.

Other than copying all files over to the new drive and setting that partition with the Windows files on the new drive as the active one, what else do I need to do?

A:Change Hard Drive

hi gmansa, a lot of members on here have had success using macrium reflect Macrium Reflect Backup and Hard Disk Imaging for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Server 2003/2008 or you could use a disc imaging software like acronis true image

i did have two hard drives in my computer two ide hard drives one of the ide hard driver are going out and i bought i 160 gb sata drive so i could rma my ide hard drive i loaded my ghost to the 160Gb sata but it is still booting form my primary ide hard drive does any one know how to fix this

thanks

bob

A:Change hard drive and need help

i think you need to go into your bios and change it to boot of you new drive

First off PC specs AMD Phenom II x processor - Ghz GB DDR RAM Nvidia N GTX GFX card GB SanDisk SSD Windows bit So here is the problem I had a Western Digital GB SATA drive that was starting to quit on me So using an Ubuntu live CD I cloned the gig drive onto the gig drive I only had used approx GB on the old drive so had LOTS of free space It seemed to clone fine and after removing the old drive the computer booted up fine no errors running super fast Windows also recognizes it as a solid state drive it doesn't show up in the defrag list However I just noticed that it's showing the space on the drive as incorrect It shows up as GB free of GB so pretty much the same size as the old drive the motherboard's bios shows it correctly and my linux CD shows it correct as well Any way I can fix this in windows without a reinstall of the OS

A:Problem after having cloned drive. (showing incorrect space on drive)

Maybe you can try to clone with Macrium freeTry loading defaults in BIOS

I learned that for whatever reason, the original settings have been changed and it's probably the reason for my headaches with it.

So I went into setup, but I just don't see where I can change the parameters. I'm pretty sure that if I can do this, the drive will finally be able to defrag, and it really needs it. It hasn't been drefraged since January, easily.

My to icon drive How USB ? change Hard external USB hard drives have this icon http photoserver ws How to change USB Hard drive icon ? images N b a ccc png I guess because I somehow deleted autorun inf file I have tried to change it following guide from this link http www astahost com info php change-drive-icons-labels t html but failed Right-click How to change USB Hard drive icon ? on the H doesn't give me the option to change the icon How to change Is it possible to do this directly by selecting another one from shell dll or over must do something with Registry Failed also recomandation with autoran inf file AutoRun How to change USB Hard drive icon ? label USB Hard Icon slick hd green ico according to the instructions from the http www wikihow com Change-the-Icon-of-Removable-Drives In meentime I changed his Label from Computer Management now he is USB Hard and noted next http photoserver ws images eYZB b eb be png and here is content of his autoran subfolder http photoserver ws images MRmz b eb c png What to do And another question What is the best small soft for creating icons from given pictures

A:How to change USB Hard drive icon ?

Hi

Your posting is a little bit confusing?
Which external HDD you have exactly?

As far as I know for drives the icon can only be changed in Windows registry but is this really so important? I doubt this?

GOOD MORNING I AM A NEWBE HERE SO THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP I HAVE TRANSFERED WINDOWS XP FROM A HARD DRIVE TO A LARGER DRIVE AND ALL IS WELL BUT EACH TIME I BOOT UP THE COMPUTER I NEED TO SELECT THE DRIVE FROM TO HOW CAN I CHANGE IT IN THE BIOS MY COMPUTER IS AN COMPAQ EVO D OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version Service Pack Build OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name ROYL System Manufacturer Compaq System Model Evo D System Type X -based PC Processor x Family Model Stepping GenuineIntel Mhz BIOS Version Date Compaq Y v SMBIOS Version Windows Directory C WINDOWS System Directory C WINDOWS system Boot Device Device HarddiskVolume Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version quot xpsp - quot User Name ROYL ROY L SEIDELL Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Change Hard Position Drive Memory MB Available Physical Memory MB Total Virtual Memory GB Available Virtual Memory GB Page File Space GB Page Change Hard Drive Position File C pagefile sys

Basically i brought an OEM version of windows the other day ,Installed fine and all was going well till my hard drive started playing up. So iv invested in a new hard drive but....how do i go about uninstalling this copy and putting it on the new drive, Because i was told it could only be installed on one pc ?

Hi. I have two hard drives in my computer. One is 320GB and it is almost filled up. I also have a 1TB hard drive that I bought recently. All the programs I install automatically choose the C drive (320GB). How can I change the default hard drive to the A drive (1TB)? I know you can just change the install directory when your installing the program but it would be a lot easier if it automatically chose the A drive. Some programs don't even give you a choice where to install it.

A:Change default hard drive

If your 320 GB drive is filled up with user data, like pictures, songs, etc, just move them over to your new drive and use that for data storage. If the 320 GB drive is filled up with apps and games, you could either uninstall what you don't need, or clone the 320 GB to the 1 TB drive.

Hi - I thought Drive Hard Change to Need Letter that I posted this question this morning but in looking Need to Change Hard Drive Letter through today s questions I don t see my post Maybe it was moved Anyway here it is yr old Sony VAIO desktop with XP Pro The floppy a drive Need to Change Hard Drive Letter broke and I Need to Change Hard Drive Letter physically removed it I bought an external drive USB which became b obviously before I moved the a I know all the floppy jokes but I m old and I still use them I also come across situations when they are called for I can t make Microsoft s boot disks etc Neither a nor b show up in Disk Management so I can t change the letters that way I ve actually tried to remove all the places the a phantom driver shows up I ve hit quot uninstall quot in the device manager but that only works until I turn the computer off and back on The computer says that it quot found new hardware quot I ve exhausted my knowledge here Some programs tell me to insert a floppy disk and when I put it in the b drive it isn t recognized I never go in the registry because frankly it scares me I ve been in the BIOS for very minor things Can anyone please help me to get this floppy drive to become my a drive or maybe just get rid of every trace whatsoever of a since I deleted the driver everywhere I could get the a driver back if I need to I was stupid and not thinking about maybe needing the driver I figured the b driver will come with me when I call it a Thank You Dawn nbsp

My computer's Windows XP OS recently "crashed" so I put in a new hard drive with Windows ME OS. I've installed everything with the replacement hard drive, but for some reason I can't get it to recognize my other hard drives that have information written from the XP OS. The only way I have found to get my old hard drives to work is to reformat them, but that requires deleteing the information on the drives- something I absolutely cannot do. Is there any way I can get these to work with the new OS? The 2 extra hard drives are a 160GB Western Digital and a 120GB Maxor (formerly my boot-up drive)

hello all!i encountered a problem after installing a new hard drivei have 3 HDs (including the one i just installed) C: wich is where windows is installed and E: and F: for dataafter installing the new HD ( F: )and formatting it, my system stopped booting, it just hangs, so i changed the boot order and it boots fine, but not through C: but through E:i also found new BOOT folder in E:, wich wasnt there beforei believe that the HD the system boots from should be the one Windows is installed on ( C: ) so if im not mistaken (very likely i am) i should have C: marked as BOOT and SYSTEM in the Disk Management windowi searched a bit but cannot find a way to fix this, help would be greatly apreciated!

this is a screenshot of my Disk Management window

A:change system hard drive

Welcome to the forum, I don't know enough to help but I did notice from your screenshot that you have 2 Active partitions so perhaps that is the problem. Wait until one of the experts comes along to help I just wanted to welcome you and point out my observation.

I have a Presario 715 on XP and the hard drive is making noise. I need advice on how to make a clone of the drive before it dies.Options: 1) buy a usb to usb cable and somehow copy all the c drive to another pc. Will this work and how do I do it, dos xcopy?2) Buy a zip drive. I have about 9 gig in use on the old drive.3) Put the new drive in and do a "quick restore" and then copy all the files from the other PC? 4) Is there a way to write multiple cd's to make a backup of the entire c drive? I have NT backup loaded.5) Buy an external drive and move everything to that first?Any comments on these ideas would be appreciated.Thanks

A:advice on hard drive change?

buy a new drive install an operating system on it use it as master,set up the old as slave and drag all your files over.

I have a new computer that runs W7 Prof 64 bit. I noticed when I got it the following.

Drive C (W7 on it and it's the boot drive)
Drive E (second hard drive
Drive D (CDROM drive)
Hard Drives are both 1TB SATA3
What is on the E drive is data I copied there.
I would like to change the E drive to D and the CDROM drive D to E.
This way my hard drives will be C and D and the CDROM will be E.
I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help me?

Keithet

A:Change Hard Drive Letter

You can do that in Disk Management. Right click on the drive(s) and you will see. But you will first have to assign a different letter (e.g. M) to E or D to free up that letter. If you have data on E, it may lose the path though.

I am looking to upgrade my motherboard, but keep my current hard drive and the content on it (due to having alot of programs and software plugins on it). I am running Windows 7 32 bit with and AMD Phenom II x2 CPU. My current motherboard is one I went to when my compaq desktop died a while ago and I wanted to upgrade my operating system and hard drive capacity anyway. So, the first link below is the motherboard I have and the second link is the motherboard I am looking at upgrading to (since the two are somewhat comparable in specs/give or take a few things). Any suggestions or help is welcome. Thanks!

I have win7 on the HD that boots up now. I also have another HD with the old vista set up. How can I change the bios so the vista HD will boot? tried a few things in bios but nothing changed. have sata system. the vista hd is listed as slave.

really what I want is to boot into the vista setup. I can get data files but want to see a program setting for access to internet (if that's possible), and that requires opening the program on vista, not the win7.

Msongs

A:change hard drive boot order??

Quote: Originally Posted by msongs

hello,

I have win7 on the HD that boots up now. I also have another HD with the old vista set up. How can I change the bios so the vista HD will boot? tried a few things in bios but nothing changed. have sata system. the vista hd is listed as slave.

really what I want is to boot into the vista setup. I can get data files but want to see a program setting for access to internet (if that's possible), and that requires opening the program on vista, not the win7.

Msongs

Hi and welcome.

You can use bcdedit to set up a dual boot. instruction here BCDEDIT - How to Use

I'm working on a computer that currently has virtually no space left on the C:drive, but has over 20GB empty space on the other hard drive partition, the F:drive.

It's a shared computer, and unfortunately people keep downloading programs and other media onto the C:drive, despite my attempts to keep it's volume down. Now I get messages that pop up telling me that my C:drive is dangerously full and could effect the performance of my computer.

Do you know of any way that I could change the size of my hard drive partitions so that I can add more space to my C:drive and decrease the space of my F:drive?

I appreciate your help.

A:How do I change the size of my hard drive partitions

you could use partition magic to resize the drives. this is a trial version, but i cannot see what, if any, limitations it has. it is always very wise to back up data before you mess around with the partition sizes. i have used partition magic a good few times and never had a problem with it.

another option is to uninstall some software and reinstall on F:\ or whichever partition has the empty space.

there could be alot of trash on the C:\ drive as well. i use this program to view what folders are using the most space and very often you'll find user created files, that can be deleted, sitting on the HD.

Windows 7 Home Premium
Under Windows Explorer 'Computer' all of the my drives and storage devices are listed. I am trying to change the icon associated with my esata external hard drive. Anyone know how to do this?

This hard drive has many important pics on it I went under Command Prompt as administrator and did driver detail on it Besides saying that the Current Read Only State and the Read Only saying Yes beside them the Location Path says unavailable a to Read is Hard that? Drive there External Only, change way To make it really weird sometimes when I first plug it in I can copy External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that? stuff from it but only for like a fraction of a minute and than External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that? it wont let me into files I have another hard drive of the same brand and size empty and awaiting to save files from this hard drive also when I will try to get on the files External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that? some of them will ask me if I want to format the disk I will say cancel and it will say data error cyclic redundancy check I have read else where that this means the disk is failing I want to change the drive from read only to a way to get the stuff off the hard drive Oh the hard drive is a GB Free Agent Go Flex Seagate USB so is the one I have ready for it Also a little bg when it first died I couldnt even get on far enough to see files On time I did get on about weeks later and was able to see all my files were still there Than my compy died since I didnt realize it had come unplugged from the wall After that once again I couldnt get on it and it was reading as RAW Than this past week all of a sudden it was reading as NFTS showing the properties so I can see that the same amount of GB is still the same as before the drive went weird and letting me get on to the first part and sometimes into a few of the files but only ones with sub folders Thats also when the Read Only started up Okay I think I thought of everything Really I'm just trying away to save my pics vids and docs on there I have wmv avi doc txt jpeg wps and I think thats it maybe a different image type file

A:External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that?

Create a bootable pendrive with Lucid Puppy on it, boot from it and check whether you can access and retrieve your files from the external HDD.

I have a SEVERE problem. My computer stopped recognizing my hard drive, so I took it over to a friend's and hooked it up to his computer, where I was allowed access to my hard drive. However, the vast majority of my files (pictures, word documents, etc) were stored under my personal folder, which was protected by the basic Windows XP password, and now it will not let me into the folder, as I haven't logged into the account it is used to seeing.

I know all my information is there, but I can't get to it. How can I solve this problem and retrieve my information? It may sound melodramatic but I seriously feel like a significant portion of my life is stuck in that folder, and I'd do nearly anything to get it back. Any help would be genuinely appreciated as I am in great need. Thanks!

A:Hard Drive change/password problem

Into safe mode and login as Administrator and then change the user functions on that drive

I bought a seagate hard drive a while back and it has worked fine for the last year. Recently, the icon for my hard drive was replaced by a broadcom SD card icon. i have tried changing it back using .inf, using RegEdit, uninstalling Broadcom card reader, and uninstalling the HDD. None of those methods have worked. The crappy icon is kinda annoying. Is there a way to change it back or do i have to factory reset my computer/portable HDD

A:How do I change the icon for my Seagate Hard Drive

Hello Battleman, and welcome to Eight Forums.

You might see if using either option in the tutorial below may allow you to change the drive's icon to what you like.

I've had this PC running the same way for about a year now (everything working fine) in the past week i noticed that 1 of my 4 hard drives started going really slow.I checked all my IDE Channel and realized that the hard drive had changed to PIO Mode 4. I select it and check the 'Enable DMA' box and hit OK. the properties dialog closes but when i reopen it it's set back to PIO Mode 4.Any ideas?

A:Hard Drive changes to PIO Mode 4 - can't change back to DMA

It should not be any slower on PIO 4 than it is on any DMA setting, they are capped at the same rate.

Ultra DMA would be different, doubling the transfer rate.

Could you help us out by:1. Filling out your system specifications entirely?2. Telling us if you were doing anything when this happened?

I have been having some trouble lately with my home computer, every so often the Pc will crash with a blue screen, with white text saying that a physical memory dump bios is being completed or something like that, i turn it off then back on again and it works fine, however each time this happens my free space on my hard drive reduces!

Sometimes i will have the correct amount which should be something like 123gb free, but sometimes i turn it on and check and i only have 4gb or so free? could something have become dissconnected or something like that? the pc itself works fine but it just seems to crash when i am either trying to load too much at once, or most of the time this occurs when i am unplugging my wireless adapter, or even repairing the connection which does close quite regularly.

Somehow, I changed the location of my external hard drive from the I: drive to the H: drive. When I click on my external hard drive under the H: drive, all it shows is the H: hard drive shortcut. When I click on the shortcut, it says that the H: drive cannot be located.

I tried to find it under the I: drive, but it cannot find an I: drive.

Is there any way I can change it back to my I: drive? Will I be able to get my backup files back?

Thanks in advance.

A:How do I change the location of my external hard drive from H: to I:

Hello Wolf, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yes, the tutorial below can help show you how to change the drive letter back to I.

Does anyone know how to change the hard drive on the pavillion 15-r012na. Having removed the screws from the back, it still won't come off. I need to remove this in order to establish what new hard drive to buy. Then I need to know how to fit it.

A:change the hard drive on the Pavillion 15-r012na.

Hi, Have you removed the screws and covers hidden under the rear rubber feet - see Page 61/62 of your Maintenance & Service Guide. The procedure for removing/replacing the HDD starts on Page 67. Regards, DP-K

Hi Everyone here was so great last time I needed help so I am asking again I am not great with all the technical stuff so please keep that it mind but from the help I got here I was able to get a new hard drive and do a complete new install so thanks again This time I am trying to help my mother - her hard drive crashed and she needs to have it replaced like I did before She has a Dell Inspiron MT and the hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar Blue WD AAJS GB RPM MB Cache SATA Gb s quot Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive I need to know if I can replace that with a Western Digital WD AAEX GB RPM MB Cache SATA Gb s quot Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive that I found on NewEgg love them I want to get her more GB and the WD AAJS is out of Hard drive question Solved: change stock Any help would of course be Solved: Hard drive change question greatly appreciated nbsp

I just purchased a new SATA Hard Drive which is much faster than the IDE Disks I have now. I will be using Norton Ghost to move my Operating System and Program Files to the new drive (thanks to the folks on this forum who helped me figure that out). I assume I will have to change to bootable drive in the BIOS, but are there any physical connections I'll have to change inside my PC?Thanks!!

I just got my replacement H.D. back for my HTPC and I ghosted the bad drive and now reinstalled everything onto it. I had to set the drive letter to F: because I already had a drive C: on the computer that I was doing the cloning on. The computer that needs the replacement drive is looking for drive C:.

How can I fix this?

Joe

A:Ghosted Hard Drive (How to change back to C:)

If you are running XP go to computer management - disk management and you can reassign drive letters there by right clicking on the drive you want to reassign. You may have to do some moving of drive letters to get everything back to where you want it/or it shoulod be.

Hey guys, I recently recieved a new External hard drive. The other day, I changed the icon on it, no problem. I've done it millions of times. Then last night, I formatted the drive because I wanted to get rid of this annoying virtual drive that would also come up when I plugged it in. So, I formatted it and now it seems I can not change the icon. I do all the autorun.inf etc. Here's a screenshot

http://jarrodjs.rumkin.com/comp.jpg

Also you can see my other drive icons are gone. Ive reset the icon db before and no other icons have this problem but im not sure if I need to reset it again to get the rest back.

But my external hd is top priorite.
Thanks!!!

A:Change External Hard Drive Icons

Hello Jarrod, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might see if deleting the desktop.ini files and seeing if one of the methods in the tutorial below will allow you to change the drive icon to what you want instead.

Hi, My computer didn't work anymore. I brought it to a tech guy who told me the hard disk was dead. He replaced it and he installed windows 7 on it. It turns out it is an illegal version of windows 7. Since I bought a windows 8 licence with my computer, I'd like to install it back on my computer. How can I install windows 8 back ? Best,

I have built a computer for video editing and named the hard drives C for the main drive M for the drive holding designating do hard change ? drive (V:) How I letter my music P for the drive for photos and I named the drive to store my videos V However How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ? when I tried to write path to the V How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ? drive I was told V is an invalid path I suppose because of the confusion with a followed by a which would give you How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ? a which can be confused with V but is not exactly the same I went to My Computer and right clicked on the V drive and clicked on quot rename quot in the drop down menu and changed the name to quot Storage quot but the V persisted Then I renamed again and named the drive quot Storage S quot and now in quot My Computer quot the drive is shown as quot Storage S V quot When writing a path to put videos on this drive can I use either S or V to get videos into this drive Is there some way to remove the V Thanks

A:How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ?

My guess is that V: might be in conflict with one of your removable media drives. On my new DELL with a multimedia card, I have a V: which is associated with a SD/mini-mmc/rs drive. There are also drive letters S:, U:, and Z: defined for various things (Z: is my CD/DVD drive).

The way that I found to remane drives and drive letter assignments is a disk management tool. Go to the Start menu, right click on Computer and click on manage. That opens up a menu to a lot of things. The thing you want is near the bottom called disk management.

Once you have the disk management screen displayed, you can right click on any drive volume to get a menu of things to do including change drive letter.

Hi I would be work hard will new Disc Cloned machine not in very grateful if someone could help with this I recently cloned my hard disc which has Windows and Ubuntu Linux installed in order to transfer it to a new faster machine The software that I used would only clone the Windows partitions so I cloned them and then created partitions for the Linux distribution and installed it I then tested the new hard disc in the machine I had just used and found that the new hard disc behaved exactly like the old one I then transferred the clone to the new computer Cloned hard Disc will not work in new machine and when I started it up I got the menu offering me a choice between Windows and Ubuntu When I selected Ubuntu the new machine booted into Ubuntu but when I selected Windows it got as far as quot Starting Windows quot and the coloured quot bits quot started to move and then it stopped When I rebooted I got a choice between quot Boot Windows Normally quot and quot Run Startup Repair quot I chose the latter and after about minutes Windows announced that it could not repair the problem I then inserted the Windows installation disc and chose quot Repair Computer quot and selected the command prompt and 'bootrec fixmbr' which didn't work them I did quot bootrec fixboot quot that didn't work either Next I ran Paragon Rescue which said that it had fixed the problem but it hadn't - Windows still would not boot What is there left to try to get this machine running If anyone could help I would be very grateful

A:Cloned hard Disc will not work in new machine

chriscs, your problem is most likely that the drivers for the hardware on the old machine are trying to run the hardware on the new machine. That does not usually work very well. You are allways better off doing a clean install (Clean Install Windows 7)

HiI am doing a favor for a friend. Her hard drive was failing so I cloned it using HD clone onto a new one.Vista boots fine but none of the services seems to be running.

Upon starting you get the error message: windows cannot find c:\windows\SMINST\Components\scheduler\STService.exewhen I try to browse the files via windows explorer I get the error message "Class not registered"

When trying to open Word the error message:

Problem with shortcut "the windows installer service could not be accessed. This can occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance"

Basically besides the OS nothing can run

I tried running system repair off the vista recovery CD but it has not helped.

Any suggestions?Thanks

A:Multiple errors on cloned hard disk

Kinda sounds like the cloning process wasn't totally successful. What did you use to clone it?Was it same brand HDD?Was it larger or smaller than orig. boot HDD?

I was recently copying a heap of files to my new HP Simple Save external hard drive and all of a sudden it wouldn't let me, saying that it was read only.

I have googled what seems to be everything and tried a range of options including--unchecking read only option in properties-using cmd.exe option to look at storage device and next to read only it said no-registry files - found some instructions to change read only in storage device options, but there was no storage device options, there was storage, but no option to remove read only-i have also ensured that i have enough permissions etc..

Some details about my computer are-

Asus F5Windows VistaAMD Athlon X2 64 (not sure if this is relevant?)

Would really appreciate some advice if anyone can help me?

Cheers

A:HP External Hard drive - files are all read only and I can't change it

From what I have heard about those drives, it is a problem with the proprietary setup of the drive. It is classic HP stupidity. The drive is coupled with junkware, which eventually fails to work properly.

I know it sucks, but I would backup everything off that drive. Uninstall all the HP software and drivers related to it. Then go into the Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Storage. Kill all the partitions on the drive, setup a new one, reformat, and use it without all the HP junk.

After that, make sure to setup proper permissions on the new volume, and re-copy everything back. If you do not need NTFS security, then format it with exFat.

Hi, I recently bought ENVY m6-w102dx x360 and thinking to replace my hard drive to a SSD.Please let me know the best fitting SSD drive this modle. Planning to buy samsung evo 250gb. Is it compatible with this model? http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-850-EVO-250-MZ-N5E250BW/dp/B00TGIVZTW http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OAJ412U/ref=twister_B00PRDMHLU?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Which one would be much faster? If not please advice me about the interface which supports it. Thanks.

My girlfriends computer has a hard drive that shows as having faults on the computer health scan. I would like to swap out the hard drive for another but obviously don't want to lose the Windows 10 installation. The computer had Windows 8 pre-installed and she later upgraded to Windows 10. Is it possible to swap out the hard drive without losing Windows?

The computer is a Lenovo C260 All-in-One.

A:How do I change the hard drive without losing the Windows install.

Hi, as the drive is faulty, unless you have already have created an image of your drive (which we very strongly recommend e.g. Macrium Reflect (free)), you will need to reinstall Windows.

Normally replacing a drive - even other parts- does not cause an activation issue. If it does, contact your regional MS activation support line.

Hey, I am about to change out the hard drive in an old Voodoo Firebird that has Windows 7 Home Premium on it and I have no factory disk. I want to reinstall the OS completely to erase any data because I am giving it away to a friend so cloning the disk is out of the question.

If I reinstall the same OS will it automatically activate like Windows 10 (the OS was installed legacy with no UEFI option)?

What is the best way to go about installing the OS and will I need to purchase another key? Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

A:Hard drive change and reinstall, will Win7 reactivcate?

Welcome to Seven Forums

No, Windows 7 won`t self activate.

You have to use the activation key on the COA, if it does not have a COA, then you`ll have to buy an OS or just give it to your friend and let him install Windows or Linux (free) himself.

If you are worried about your data, you could consider keeping the drive, hard drives and SSD`s are cheap

I have gaming laptop from Msi that lasted less than a year. I believe that my hard drive is badly made due to the laptops being mas produced. I also have two other built in hard drives that are not being used,I'm wondering how I can deactivate the faulty hard drive and run win 7 on one of the other hard drives. please help me!

A:How can I change which internal hard drive runs windows 7?

Hi and welcome to SevenForums.

I'm not sure I understand. These two internal hard disks are in another computer? What operating system is running on this other computer?

Be aware that you can't transfer the MSI Windows installation to another computer for two reasons:

1. It probably won't run.2. Microsoft does not allow transfer of OEM licenses between computers.

Also, please fill out your system specs completely, so that we can help you better.